“My eyes just about popped out of my head,” Horomanski told the Times-News. “We had put up Christmas lights and I wondered if we had put them up wrong.”

Penelec said the bill was an error and corrected it.

“I can’t recall ever seeing a bill for billions of dollars,” Mark Durbin, a spokesman for the utility told the Times-News. “We appreciate the customer’s willingness to reach out to us about the mistake.”

A woman in Erie, Pennsylvania, actually thought that was the case when she went online earlier this month to check her bill.

Mary Horomanski, 58, told the Erie Times-News, “My eyes just about popped out of my head. We had put up Christmas lights and I wondered if we had put them up wrong.”

The bill stated she had until November 2018 to pay all of the money; her minimum payment for December was over $28,000.

Thankfully, the whole thing was a mistake. Mark Durbin, who is a spokesperson for Penelec’s parent company, FirstEnergy, told the Erie News-Times, a decimal point was accidentally moved. The error was fixed to the right amount: $284.46.